...instead of adopting a union proposal that would recapture a team's salary cap advantage if a player retired before his contract ran out. The league continued to insist on a five-year contract limit, while allowing teams to re-sign their own players for seven years.

So the way I read this, the owners are firm on the 5 year limit thing, but wouldn't take the players' offer of wiping out the cap hit for retiring players. Notice how it says NOTHING about how long the players want the contracts to be, just that they don't want a 5 year limit.

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...instead of adopting a union proposal that would recapture a team's salary cap advantage if a player retired before his contract ran out. The league continued to insist on a five-year contract limit, while allowing teams to re-sign their own players for seven years.

So the way I read this, the owners are firm on the 5 year limit thing, but wouldn't take the players' offer of wiping out the cap hit for retiring players. Notice how it says NOTHING about how long the players want the contracts to be, just that they don't want a 5 year limit.

owners should be kicking themselves right now... so nice of the devils, hawks and wild to completely ruin hockey for everyone

Can the players not see that the cap can't have loopholes? There is no point to the cap if there are holes that allow people to circumvent it. I like the loyalty thing of resigning own free-agents to for 7 years. But I think it will / should end up more like: Max of 8 years on a contract with exception of 10 for own free agents.

The variance is not negotiable.

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pens_srq wrote:Can the players not see that the cap can't have loopholes? There is no point to the cap if there are holes that allow people to circumvent it. I like the loyalty thing of resigning own free-agents to for 7 years. But I think it will / should end up more like: Max of 8 years on a contract with exception of 10 for own free agents.